Almost in the blink of an eye, the cold face returned to its former look.

Shi Youqing only felt that for a few seconds, his heart was empty for a moment, and the feeling that the long-ago memory was taken away became clearer and clearer, but he didn't have time to think about it, and was about to get up, when the hand that reached his knee was wrapped and held by a larger hand.

"Don't be angry, I listen to you!"

“……”

I don't know why, he feels that Bo Huai, who said this, seems to have a sense of familiarity.

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Chapter 36: A Family of Six (11)

◎ "The monster is you. ”◎

There are less than forty minutes left until midnight.

While heading to the garden, Shi Youqing paid attention to the two rooms on the next floor.

From the outside, nothing out of the ordinary.

But Lin Lulu's anxious voice could be faintly heard......

They soon arrived at the garden in front of the villa, and without saying a word, they quickly moved into action.

Although there are street lights nearby, the light is dim, and the main way to check the ground is the bright flashlight brought from the real world held by Bo Huai.

Ten minutes later, Shi Youqing finally found loose soil under a flower seedling.

"It's darker here...... It should have been flipped a while ago. ”

They didn't bring any tools, so when Bo Huai heard the sound, he stepped forward and went straight to dig with his bare hands.

Bo Huai's hand was large, slender and powerful, and in a short time he dug out a not shallow pit, and then, a picture of the sticky dirt was taken out by the hand and wiped a few times.

Really......

Shi Youqing took the photo, and after reading it, his face was slightly gloomy.

In the photo, it is a little girl with a ponytail, the face of the little girl is a little blurred, and the background is also cut off a lot, like the kind of passer-by who is unintentionally photographed in the travel photo, and the passer-by is taken separately to enlarge and wash out......

However, the little girl is not the only one in the picture.

I say this because the other person was not photographed - next to the little girl, in that empty place, there was an old lady with short hair drawn with a black brush, and the old lady had a serious expression, and her hand was held tightly by the little girl......

Although the brushstrokes of the portrait are immature, and even somewhat abstract, through the characteristics of the expression, Shi Youqing can recognize at a glance that it is the old lady of the family......

Flipping the photo over, he saw another line of equally immature handwriting:

Happy birthday to grandma.

In the dim light, Shi Youqing looked at Bo Huai, he wanted to say something about the photo, but the next moment, his eyes were fixed on the shadow behind the other party.

The little girl stood there, just a step away from them.

His hand was grabbed violently, and Bo Huai seemed to know what he saw, so he led him and walked forward quickly.

But things didn't go well, and as soon as they left the garden, the ground illuminated by the street lamps began to darken.

Before they knew it, Shi Youqing found that they had walked into a fog.

The hand held him harder: "I remember the way, close my eyes, don't look at anything." ”

“…… Good. ”

Shi Youqing followed the person in front of him step by step, he only remembered that he had been walking, and after walking for almost ten minutes, he finally realized that something was wrong.

The garden outside this villa was not big enough for them to walk for so long.

"Bo Huai?" He shouted.

No response.

Their hands were still holding tightly, but the big warm hand somehow became cold, and after he spoke, there was still a little damp touch, and the hand was as slippery as a fish, getting smaller and smaller......

Shi Youqing hurriedly wanted to shake it off, but the hand seemed to be glued to his palm, no matter how he ran or moved, that hand did not change from the posture he held.

The people in front are still walking.

Gradually, Shi Youqing gave up struggling.

He didn't break the rules, and although it was scary for the people around him to be suddenly replaced, it was impossible for him to die like this...... Be calm.

A small shadow beside him carried him on.

In the dark, Shi Youqing felt that the road in front of him had become downhill, obviously a staircase going down, his heart moved, and he immediately thought of the basement!

When he descended the stairs, he found that the ground under his feet was very wet, and the soles of his shoes were stuck to some liquid, and with every step he took, the soles felt indescribably sticky......

At this point, they stopped.

The field of vision is still dark, but Shi Youqing suspects that this is because this place itself is dark, if he really came to the basement, the basement where the exit is hidden, the space that has no connection with the outside, is not dark, right......

Suddenly, Shi Youqing heard the little girl screaming.

"Open the door...... Open the door...... Open the door for me......"

It's completely different from the knock on the door at midnight.

The voice was urgent, with a crying tone, and it cried out over and over again.

Powerlessness, despair, but more than that, prayer.

And that little ghost seems to be two people completely.

Seemed to be infected by the other party's sadness, Shi Youqing forgot for a moment that it was a ghost in front of him, and he couldn't help but say, "I'll open it for you, where is the door?" ”

After a moment of silence.

"Here." The little girl patted her other hand abruptly in front, "Brother, the door is here, open the door quickly!" ”

He walked forward, and his toes hit the obstacle, which was supposed to be the door of the girl's mouth.

Shi Youqing raised his hand to push, although he couldn't see it, he knew that this door must be rusty, and his palm was also scratched a few times by the rust.

Hold on to the doorknob, push hard, and try to pull again after pushing......

"Squeak" "Boom"......

Countless chaotic shaking sounds echoed.

The door was clearly here, but no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't push it open.

Shi Youqing was so tired that he was panting and sweating: "I can't open it...... I guess it's locked out from the outside......"

The girl sobbed.

The cold stickiness in his hand did not dissipate at all, but Shi Youqing was no longer so afraid of her, he squatted down, looked ahead through the darkness, tried to look at the little girl in this way, he asked, "What is your name?" ”

The girl continued to cry and did not speak.

Shi Youqing said: "Did someone else lock you up here?" ”

The girl was still crying.

Shi Youqing continued: "Are the people here your family? ”

The crying stopped, and he felt the hand that was holding him tighten.

"Yes." The girl said, "I have a father, a mother, a grandparents, and an unborn ...... I don't know if it's a brother or a sister. But I am a family with them. ”

“…… So why are you here? Shi Youqing returned to the original question.

This time, instead of the little girl's sobs, he felt the other party move closer to him, so close that he could already smell an indescribable smell of corpse decay......

"Because I think they love me." The childish voice said with great clarity.

“……”

Because I think they love me.

Shi Youqing's mind quickly flashed the photos in the villa, those family photos with no trace of the little girl at all...... His chest tightened, and he slowly got up and said, "I'll take you to them." ”

"Nope." The little girl cried again, "I can't get out." ”

"But ......"

"Brother," the girl's voice grew lower in the darkness, "I want you to stay with me." ”

"Nope." He's going to die.

"But it's midnight in five minutes." The girl was not surprised, and her tone became unfluctuating, "You're running out of time. ”

Five minutes!

Shi Youqing woke up like a dream, he tried to open his eyes and look around, but he couldn't see anything...... He raised his hands and could only fumble the space in a hurry......

It's crowded...... I don't know what I've piled up, and I don't have a place to put my feet......

It's hard to even walk to the other side of the door......

"You can't leave," the little girl's faint voice followed, "Your family is gone, I can be your family, I hide you here, you can accompany me......"

"My family...... How do you know?! At that moment, Shi Youqing's whole body stiffened, and his blood surged, and he immediately remembered the dream of that night, and next to the monster in the dream, there was this girl......

That's not just a dream?!

"The monster told you that?" He changed his previous silence and approached the past in an eager tone, "Who is he?!" ”

"I don't know." The little girl said.

"You know!" Thinking that the truth of his mother's disappearance was close at hand, Shi Youqing lost his mind in an instant, and he grabbed the girl and asked loudly, "What is that monster?" Where is he?! ”

"I don't know." Repeating this sentence, the little girl sobbed again, "Brother, why do you say he is a monster?" ”

“……”

"We're not monsters, we just want to keep our souls in this world, except for life, we're exactly the same as humans, you ...... It's a different one. ”